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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Begone, wizard! The armor of God be between me and thee! Fiend of the regions of darkness, it was thou who offered me the book to sign. Away! begone! tempt me no more, for, by the grace of Heaven, I defy you! I will not sign!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been some years since I was here, and yet, if I mistake not, this is surely the path that leads to her house." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father! father!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father, father, why don't you speak?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is some mistake!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you not my father?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not my father; but you are very like him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not your father, little maid. I came to thank these people for their kindness to me a few years ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you he whom I found by the broo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, I see now there is a difference between you and him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "George!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where have you been since you were here, Harry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was a captive among the Indians for a few months, was liberated by some French Jesuits and went to France and thence to England, hoping to see you. I was several weeks at our old home ne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--excited the people by the cry of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus, says McMahan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "First Day" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Jerseys," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The concessions and agreements of the proprietors, freeholders and inhabitants of the province of West Jersey in America." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apology for the true Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth and practised by the people called in scorn Quakers, and his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Treatise on Christian Discipline." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put not your trust in princes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fundamental Constitutions, a splendid government, in 1669, was completed. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "were signed in March, 1670, and were highly lauded in England, as forming the wisest scheme for human government ever devised. Monk, Duke of Albemarle, was cr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fundamental Constitutions" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, it is I, are you afraid of me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why are you so sad to-day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do I seem sad?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You look it." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of Goody Nurse and her sisters, Goody Cloyse and Goody Easty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are very excellent women, Charles answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would that we had more like them." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, who said it was wrong?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Parris." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On last Lord's day he did upbraid us as the emissaries of the Devil, and Goody Nurse avowed if the mi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is your father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas, I know not, save that he has gone with his brother Harry Waters to Canada to procure furs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, what strange mystery surrounds your life?" }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your father was captured at the battle of Sedgemore, was he not?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; he was impressed into the army of Monmouth. My father had no interest in either army. What were their quarrels to him? Part of the time he was in the Netherlands, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was spared, and at the trial it appeared that he held no commission in the rebel's army, so he was condemned to ten years' penal servitude in the colonies, and was sent to Virginia, whither I went, also. Of our escape, through the kindness and courage of your relative in Virg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no! I would not go away, if I could remain in peace; but our persecutions seem endless. My father is a good man. Although he was a player, he was ever the kindest of fathers, and taught me only the purest religious sentiments, yet Mr. Parris calls him the agent of the devil....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have no care for what Mr. Parris may say, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His congregation is divided against him, and he cannot harm you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only a little longer, just a little longer, and I will be gone where they c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold, will you, Charles Stevens, until I speak to the one who accompanies you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is that woman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah Williams." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have seen her." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have no fears, Cora, she will not harm you. I trow it is some commonplace matter of which she would speak." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cora Waters, have you no sense of shame? Are you wholly given up to the evil one?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have bewitched my cows; my sheep and swine die mysteriously. Your form is seen oft at night riding through the air. My poultry die strangely and mysteriously, and my dog has fits. Even my poor cat hath fallen under the evil spell which you cast on all about me. Alas, Cora Wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She, too, is my enemy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no friend----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't say that, Cora. While mother and I live, you have two friends," }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, he is a bad man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, has any one been here since we left?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was it Mr. Parris?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We saw him come out of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, whatever he said of her is false. I know he hates Cora, that he would make her one of the emissaries of Satan; but his charges are false. You know--you must know that she is a pure, good girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do know it, she answered, her fac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, how can he injure me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In more ways than one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What are they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, Charles; but I know--I feel that something terrible is about to ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, Charles Stevens, where were you last Lord's Day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was I missed?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were, and I trow the patrol could not find you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was in Boston." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How will all this end?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are abroad early, this morning, Mr. Parris," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not too soon, however, the reverend gentleman answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The devil does not sleep. He is abroad continually, and, verily, one needs must rise ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is your business with me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems best that we converse where there is no danger of being overheard, Charles, as what I have to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you to say, Mr. Parris?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No man knows until the time comes what depths are within him. To some men it never comes. Let them rest and be thankful. To me it was brought--it was forced upon me. I am despised, misused and abused by...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know what I am going to say, the pastor began, his austere face once more assuming its terrible expression." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't like me, your mother don't like me, and the congregation is divided, doing all in their power to dispossess me; bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O thou great Jehovah, do but command me, and rivers of blood shall flow----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Parris!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop! I implore you do not interrupt me, Charles. Wait until, by fasting and prayer and long, solemn me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Invisible World." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The same Devil, which then thus imitated what was in the church of the Old Testament, now among us, would imitate the affairs of the church in the New. The witches do say that they form themselves after the manner of Congregational Churches, and that they have baptism and a supp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Charles, Charles, why persecutest thou me? Have not the scales of infidelity fallen from your eyes? Would you deny the power of God?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not God whom I deny, but man. God is good and just and kind. He who, in the name of the Lord, wou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Parris, let me go. I have heard quite enough. We understand each other thoroughly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you will not give her up?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Verily, she hath bewitch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have I offended you, Cora?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why do you avoid me? I have scarcely seen you for three days." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you wish to see me?" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She has come, Charles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Adelpha Leisler." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is she, mother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With Goody Nurse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, God, why didst thou create me with desires and ambitions above my sphere? Why didst thou cast me into this place, where I would meet him, only to suffer? Father, father, come and take me hence!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sometimes wish that childhood would last forever," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Childhood brings its joys, but its sorrows as well, Adelpha answered, as she sat on the mossy bank at his side, her bright eyes on his face." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Charles, she is very pretty. Why have you not told me of her before?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not suppose you would be interested in her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not interested in her, with all the romance attached to her. A child rea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He hath another! Which of the two doth he love most? I will know, and then--woe betide her!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know he loves both. Can a man wed two? No; he must choose between the two, so I will stand between." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How long have you known Adelpha?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were children together." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has she always lived in New York?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but our grandparents knew each other. Matthew Ste...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adelpha is a lovely maid and as good as she is beautiful. Her lot is a happy one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cora, there is such a difference in the lots of people, that sometimes I almost believe God is unjust." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Charle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watching the sunset, are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it is a pretty thing to see, and I wish he would always be setting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A child's wish, answered Adelp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Charles, your heroine is more dull than modern maids, or, when the sun jilted her, she would have wooed the moon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is growing dark. Let us go home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alice, are you afraid of the witches, whi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both are beautiful, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ere long I must wed, and which of the twain shall it be? Both are beautiful, and both are good; but, unfortunately, they are two, and I am one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait! wait! I i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Charles Stevens!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah Williams, what are you doing here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prythee, what are you doing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verily, Charles Stevens, you scorn me; but I will yet make you repent that you ever treated my love with contempt. You shall rue this day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has happened, Adelpha?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is trouble at home, Charles, she cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father and Milborne have been arrested and imprisoned and I fear it will fare hard with them. I want to set out for N...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Francis Nicholson, esq., or, in his absence, to such as, for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws, in their majesty's province of New York, in America. This letter was dated the 29th of July and was accompanied by another from Lord Nottin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Resolved: since we are informed by persons coming from New York, that Captain Jacob Leisler is designed to send up a company of armed men, upon pretence to assist us in this country, who intend to make themselves master of their majesties' fort and this city, and carry divers pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then we will greet him as our governor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait until you know he is not an impostor, and that this is not a trick to seize our fort," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Possession of his majesty's fort is what I demand," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly, never greater villains lived; but I have resolved to wait for the royal pleasure, if, by any other means than hanging, I can keep the country quiet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has the wheel of fortune changed its revolutions, and is the sun which has ever shone bright for Adelpha to be clouded? God forbid!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The house, according to their opinion given, did approve of what his excellency and council had done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. Vitus' dance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Parris, I am grievously annoyed with a witch in my churn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does she do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She prevents the butter from forming, and I have churned until my arms seem as if they would drop off." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do this in the name of the Lord," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do this in the name of the Lord." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No! no! lend her nothing, or you will break the spell! Avaunt, vile witch, or I will scourge you until your shoulders are bare and bleeding." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, I will go no more to hear Mr. Parris," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must, my son. The laws of the colony compel the attendance on divine worship." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Such laws should be repealed as foolish. Compel one to go to ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, don't go away. I must talk with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What would you say?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is much. Let us go down to the brook and sit on the green banks as we used to do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, are you still persecuted by Mr. Parris? Does he continue to denounce you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He does." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is an evidence that he is a man of low qualities. And he still assails Goody Nurse?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you seen your father recently?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was here two months ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did he want to take you away with him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He did; but I could not go. I promised to rem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Charles, were you with her when it happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you comfort her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Such poor words of comfort as one can offer on such occasions, I gave her,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us not anticipate evil, Cora. Wait until it is upon us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spoken like a philosopher, she answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where should we go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Far to the north and east. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But that other--that awful thing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, Cora?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The flight, the pursuit and the death of the overseer. Oh, Charles, we can never be safe, while that hangs over us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, don't give way to despair, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What your father did was right and justifiable, though technically the law may take a different view. I have a relative living in Virginia, wealthy and influential. I shall write to him to procu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonders of the Invisible World," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Its motions were quicker than those of my axe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "On going a little further, there appeared unto me a black puppy, somewhat bigger than the first, but as black as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New England being a country whose interests are remarkably inwrapped in ecclesiastical circumstances, ministers ought to concern themselves in politics." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was welcome, no doubt, and it was always on the increase. The human mind requires amusement, as the human body requires food, exercise and rest, and when healthful and innocent amusements are denied, resort is had to the low and vicious. Mr. Parris, who preached sermons against ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now is the coming of the Lord, and the consumption of the fire-brands of hell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must go away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "On the morrow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell them to do no one harm, Oracus, said Mr. Waters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have never harmed mankind, save in defence, and, God willing, I never will. I am going away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Mr. Waters here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is asleep in his room," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Awake him. This good man from Virginia wants to see him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is ever thus, when one covenants with the devil. An actor in the theatres taken to the home and family of those claiming to be Christians. Verily, I am not surprised that he is also a murderer. When one lets go his hold on the Lord, there can be no crime to which he will not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cruel fate seems to have doomed me to misery, Charles. Father cannot return; I cannot escape, and I feel that Mr. Parris is drawing a net about me, which will entangle my feet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trust in God, and all is well!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter, Sarah?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother is arrested!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Arrested!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For what charge?" }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the United States" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The delusion, but for Parris, would have languished. Of his own niece, the girl of eleven years of age, he demanded the names of the devil's instruments, who bewitched the band of 'the afflicted,' and then b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will go at once and denounce Mr. Parris for the part he has played in this!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't go, Charles. Don't leave the house while in this heat of passion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cora, I cannot endure that hypocrite long...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all the work of Samuel Parris, declared Mrs. Stevens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because Goody Nurse opposed his ministry, he seeks revenge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Parris is an unworthy man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come, Goody Stevens, to be the bearer of what I trust will be welcome tidings. Goody Nurse hath been arrested and sent to prison for her grievously tormenting the family of Mr. Parris and myself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you suspect that such news will be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His zeal for the cause of Christ hath brought down upon him the wrath of the worldly minded. He is a saint--a glorious saint, and because he denounced Cora Waters for being the child of a player, you would malign him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ann Putnam, interr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I denounce you! I cry out against you, Hattie Stevens! I will to do no more with you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Charles, I am sorry you and your mother angered her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Cora?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Landlord Nurse" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goody Nurse, begone! begone! begone! Are you not ashamed, a woman of your profession, to afflict a poor creature so? What hurt did I ever do you in my life? You have but two years to live, and then the devil will torment your soul, for this your name is blotted out of God's book...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure you cannot stand before that text." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will tell. I will tell, it is,--it is,--it is the third chapter of the Revelations." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On March 18th, 1692, being wearied out in helping to tend my poor afflicted child and maid, about the middle of the afternoon I lay me down on the bed to take a little rest; and immediately I was almost pressed and choked to death, that, had it not been for the mercy of a gracio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they had a stick well laid about their backs, I trow it would cure them of such devil's capers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a care, Charles. Take heed of your hasty speech," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Once, when Rebecca Nurse's apparition appeared unto me, she declared that she had killed Benjamin Houlton, John Friller, and Rebecca Shepherd, and that she and her sister Cloyse, and Edward Bishop's wife, had killed John Putnam's child. Immediately there did appear to me six chi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John, who hurt you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goody Nurse first, and den Goody Corey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What did she do to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She brought de book to me." }, { "from": "human", "v...